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Each week The 1937 Flood, West Virginia's most eclectic string band, offers a free tune from a recent rehearsal, show or jam session. Music styles range from blues and jazz to folk, hokum, ballad and old-time.
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“Darlin’ Companion” (opens the original)
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As much as we try to use the rehearsals to work out arrangements to our regular tunes, we never drift too far away from The Flood’s original loose jam session vibe. That means there’s always room for those “sometimes kinda tunes,” like this one , heads-up, top-down and just flat-out rattling and rolling into the sunset! About the Song “Darlin’ Companion” was written by John Sebastian and was first recorded by his group, The Lovin’ Spoonful, in November 1966 on their album Hums of the Lovin’ Spoo
The Song that Defined George Hamilton IV (opens the original)
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When George Hamilton IV suffered his fatal heart attack a dozen years ago this week, the first song The New York Times mentioned in his obituary was “Abilene.” Indeed, that son g was a turning point in Hamilton’s life. Recorded in March 1963 at RCA’s Studio B in Nashville, “Abilene” was the biggest hit of George’s long career, helping him transition from a pop teen idol of the 1950s into a traditional country artist. As reported here earlier , the song , which had a four-week run at No. 1 on the
Railroads on the Mind and on Down the Line (opens the original)
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Surely, no innovation in modern human history has gotten so deeply into our psyche — into our hearts and into our very minds — as the railroad. Train imagery fills our art and music, symbolizing so many beginnings … and, well, endings. Here’s a train tune from our folk-infused youth . About the Song As reported here earlier , singer/songwriter Eric Andersen introduced his “Dusty Boxcar Wall” in 1965 on his debut album for Vanguard Records, Today is the Highway. A few years earlier, Andersen drop
"Murder of Mountains" (opens the original)
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Dave Peyton inspired our writing of this song . West Virginia’s greatest defender — and her harshest critic — Dave spoke tirelessly from his popular newspaper columns and in his frequent radio and television appearances… … but also anywhere else that people would listen, in coffee shops and at conferences, in living rooms and at dinner tables, on concert stages and in our band room between our weekly tunes. Railing against what he saw as the relentless ravaging of the state, he’d say, “Sometimes
Folk Vibe (opens the original)
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Charlie Bowen remembers a conversation he once had with his old buddy Jim Strother. It was decades ago and the two of them were reminiscing about a time even earlier. “Remember,” Jim said, “when you’d see a fella ramblin’ along carrying a guitar case, and he’d have his coat collar turned up against the wind and a cap pulled down over his eyes. “Just one look and you knew everything you needed to know about that guy.” You know, it probably wasn’t always spitting snow, but it certainly is in today
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